Category: poetry

  • Black Sonnet

    Black Sonnet

    Candace Williams and I collaborated on this print featuring her poem “Black Sonnet”. We used a paper lithography process for it’s inky textures—to bring it from the digital space to paper. We made three variations of this print. Singing Saw Press will distribute copies of this print in a limited edition portfolio of broadsides called PARALLAX. Last…

  • Salaam Alaikum prints

    Salaam Alaikum prints

    Sahar Muradi and I’s collaborative prints will be exhibited at Bethany Arts Community. The exhibit will run from May 12 through June 10, 2018. “Salaam Alaikum” is a series of monotypes drawing lines from Muradi’s eponymous poem, which is concerned with how daily greetings take on new tenor in times of war. Here, greetings in…

  • Talk at WSW

    Talk at WSW

    I had the fortune of teaching a screenprinting workshop at Women’s Studio Workshop’s 2017 Summer Art Institute. My workshop was titled, Visual Poetry. While I was there I witnessed WSW’s talented interns make things happen. Shout outs to Serena Hocharoen for assisting me in the printshop. And El Horsfall for putting this video interview together.

  • Salaam Alaikum series

    Salaam Alaikum series

    “Salaam Alaikum” is a series of monoprints drawing lines from Muradi’s eponymous poem, which is concerned with how daily greetings take on new tenor in times of war. Here, greetings in Dari are layered with transliterations in English. Lines from the poem are in conversation with the meaning of the greetings. For example, “manda nabasheyn”…

  • Poison

    Poison

    Poison, written by Nadia Anjuman in the Summer of 2001 in Herat, Afghanistan.  I letterpress printed her original Farsi poem alongside an English translation by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar in September, 2015.  I printed this to honor all the women who have been murdered in Afghanistan and beyond in misogynist societies. To read more of…

  • Corita Kent

    Corita Kent

    This screenprint is an ode to Sister Corita Kent.  I made it in June at Women’s Studio Workshop.It is in reference to this print of her’s:tender be – part one – sr. william, 1964Learn more:tender be – part one – sr. william archived at Harvard Art Museums with Inscriptions and MarksAn Artist Who Sees Holiness in Wonder…

  • Love Speaks

    Join me at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for Love Speaks: A Day of Art and Poetry from the Muslim World.  Sunday May 11, 2014.

  • Ishqnama

    Ishqnama

    Ishqnama / The Book of Love. 6 x 8.5″ closed; 4-panel double-sided accordion. 2013Collaboration with Abdullah Osman, Wazhmah Osman, Marina Ancona (10 Grand Press), Lila Yomtoob, and Nooshin Rostami. The artist book is archived in these libraries.